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image captionRichard Osman is writing two follow-ups to The Thursday Murder Club
Pointless co-host Richard Osman s debut novel The Thursday Murder Club was the UK s best-selling book in the last full week before Christmas.
The murder mystery sold 134,500 copies in the week up to Saturday.
That s more than double the next biggest seller - Barack Obama s memoir A Promised Land, which sold 66,500.
David Walliams, who has been at number one for three of the past four Christmases, is at number three with Code Name Bananas, on 55,000 sales.
Osman s book had the highest sales for a Christmas number one since Jamie Oliver a decade ago, according to The Bookseller, and is the first debut novel to be Christmas number one since current records began in the late 1990s.
Author becomes first debut novelist to score Christmas number one
(PA)
Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club has become the first debut novel to score a Christmas number one.
The Pointless host’s mystery, about a group of pensioners who set about solving the murder of a property developer in a luxury Kent retirement village, beat Barack Obama to the top the festive chart.
The novel sold 134,514 copies in the week ending December 19, according to sales monitor Nielsen BookScan.
Richard Osman (Matt Crossick/PA)
This was more than twice as many as A Promised Land, the first volume of the former US president’s memoirs of his time in office, which sold 66,531.